Overview
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.
Production
U.S. Information Agency · Hearst Metrotone News
Cast & Characters
Alexander Scourby
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Directors & Crew
Walter de Hoog
Writer
Walter de Hoog
Director
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